it sounds like bad advice from lawyers who profit from legal action....

I would hope Strange Brewing Company, Denver Colorado will always take the high road, and if they end up having to change their name, I will still visit (and will never be confused, nor will I ever shop at that other place).

For those of you who haven't visited, the brewery is off the beaten path (cheap rent), but so worth the visit for both the beer and the great people behind it. They have nice food trucks that frequent the place as well.

it sounds like bad advice from lawyers who profit from legal action....

I would hope Strange Brewing Company, Denver Colorado will always take the high road, and if they end up having to change their name, I will still visit (and will never be confused, nor will I ever shop at that other place).

For those of you who haven't visited, the brewery is off the beaten path (cheap rent), but so worth the visit for both the beer and the great people behind it. They have nice food trucks that frequent the place as well.

i agree

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“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drank, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.

This is a sad effort on the part of the plaintiff. They have so much to lose if they follow through with this. This is the action of an obsessed entrepreneur. They are blinded by their obsession. They will lose much more than they will ever gain if anything at all IMO. Such a disgrace.

I generally agree with the group that the homebrew shop went too far with this. The two Stranges are in two different markets geographically and product-wise.

But the HB shop does have a legitimate concern, however, if they were contemplating opening a brewery and wanted to use their homebrew shop name. In that case, they would obviously want to make sure that two years down the road, once their brewery is established, the Colorado Strange doesn't send them a similar letter. I'm not sure who has the greater claim to the name in this case.

But rather than sending a nastygram, it would seem to be better to meet to discuss solutions.

But yeah, I can't imagine ever buying anything from them. If your first contact with them is through your lawyer that's a problem.

I looked before like the page was just started in October (bad timing) so I'm not surpised they'd just delete it. All of the posts were just autoposts from twitter and it was generating tons of bad publicity. Still, it's foolish to think you can fight online commentary.

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The federal trademark is registered for the homebrew shop. The strange brewing brewery was established in 2010 and by the trademark has no chance to win this dispute.

From the homebrew shop perspective. They have to defend their trademark otherwise they would lose the trademark. It is that cut and dry. I do not think that homebrew shop owner is happy to pay the legal fees ether.

It has become clear that my continued use of the on-line name "gmac" clearly establishes my unique and individual use of the letter "g". It has also been noticed that many of you are using the letter "g". Please remit 1 dollar or one bottle of homebrew to me for each unapproved use of the letter "g" that you have committed in the past 2 years. Thank you"g" mac